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drupaceous

/droo-pey-shuhs/US // druˈpeɪ ʃəs //

核果型,核果类,核果型的,核果类动物

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
    • : producing drupes: drupaceous trees.

Examples

  • There are such names as "galbulus," "amphisarca," and "inferior drupaceous pseudocarps," but these are probably disappearing.

  • Ovary 1-celled with two bilamellar parietal placent, or 2–4-celled by their union, becoming drupaceous or capsular.

  • The fruit of the Hawthorn is a drupaceous pome, something between pome and drupe.

  • In his eyes, the walnut and the coco-nut are not nuts, but 'drupaceous fruits,' just like the plum and the cherry.